CURRICULUM VITAE DAVID F. MITCH EDUCATION Ph.D. 1982 University of Chicago, Economics M.A. 1974 University of Chicago, Economics B.A. (with Honors) 1973 University of Chicago, Economics Experience in Higher Education 1983 - present University of Maryland Baltimore County, Economics, Professor (2006-) Associate Professor (1990-2006) Assistant Professor (1983-1990) Spring, 1995 Fulbright Lecturer, Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science Spring, 1994 Academic Visitor, Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science (taught master's level seminar in American Economic History) 1980 - 1983 Georgetown University, Economics, Assistant Professor (1982-83) Instructor (1980-82) 1979 - 1980 Northwestern University, Economics, Visiting Assistant Professor Honors Received 2014 Honarary Doctor, Uppsala University, Sweden 1997-98 UMBC Economics Department Teacher of the Year 1995, Fulbright Lecturer, U.K. 1987-88, Spencer Fellow, National Academy of Education. Research Support and Fellowships 2005-2006. $9,678 DRIF Award, UMBC Graduate School, P.I. David F. Mitch 2 Curriculum Vitae 2001-2002 $10,000 DRIF Award, UMBC Graduate School, P.I. 2000-2001 $28,600 Spencer Foundation Small Grants Program for “Literacy and Career Mobility in Victorian England.”, P.I. 1999-2000 $7,500 DRIF Award, UMBC Graduate School., P.I. 1998-99 $4,300 DRIF Award, UMBC Graduate School., P.I. Summer, 1989 $4,500 F. Leroy Hill Summer Faculty Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University 1987-1988 $25,000 Spencer Fellowship, National Academy of Education Summer, 1984 $3,000 University of Maryland Baltimore County Summer Faculty Fellowship June, 1982 $600 Newberry Library Fellowship Master’s Students Peng Chu, 2010, Advisor on Capstone Project Bing Ling Kong, 2004, Advisor on Capstone Project. Laura Hudgins, 2003, Advisor on Capstone Project. Undergraduate Students Nikki Walker, Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award, 1999-2000, Mentor. Publications Peer Reviewed Publications Books: Roderick Floud, Santhi Hejeebu, and David Mitch eds. Humanism Challenges Materialism in Economics and Economic History, University of Chicago Press, 2017. David Mitch, John Brown, Marco van Leeuwen, editors, The Origins of the Modern Career. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing, July, 2004. David F. Mitch 3 Curriculum Vitae The Rise of Popular Literacy in Victorian England: The Influence of Private Choice and Public Policy Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992 Articles : “A Year of Transition: Faculty Recruiting at Chicago in 1946,” Journal of Political Economy, Volume 124, No.6, December, 2016: 1714-1734. “Schooling for All via Financing by Some: Perspectives from Early Modern and Victorian England,” Special Issue of Paedagogica Historica, Vol.LII, Number IV, August, 2016: 325-348. “Economic History in Departments of Economics: The Case of the University of Chicago, 1892 to the Present.” Social Science History. Vol.35, No.2, Summer, 2011: 237-271. “Literacy and Occupational Mobility in Rural versus Urban Victorian England: Evidence from linked marriage register and census records for Birmingham and Norfolk, 1851 and 1881.” Historical Methods. Vol.38, no.1, Winter, 2005: 26-38. “How did Illiterates Fare as literacy Became Almost Universal?: evidence from Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Liverpool,” Interchange Vol.34 nos.2-3 (2003): 313-335. Reprinted in Understanding Literacy in its Historical Contexts: Socio-cultural History and the Legacy of Egil Johansson, edited by Harvey J. Graff, Alison Mackinnon, Bengt Sandin, and Ian Winchester, Lund, Sweden: Nordic Academic Press.2009, pp.197-218. "Editorial Introduction," and guest editor of Special Issue on School Choice and Vouchers, Education Economics, Vol.5.No.3 (December, 1997): 203-209. "What Role should be Assigned to the Working Classes in the History of Their Own Education?" Essay Review of Social Change and Social Paralysis by Neil Smelser. American Journal of Education Vol.101, No.4 (August, 1993): 432-441. “The Impact of Subsidies to Elementary Schooling on Enrollment Rates in Nineteenth Century England", Economic History Review, Second Series, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, August, 1986: 371-391. "Underinvestment in Literacy? The Potential Contribution of Government Involvement in Elementary Education to Economic Growth in Nineteenth Century England", Journal of Economic History, Vol. XLIV, No. 2 (June, 1984): 557-566. Chapters in Books: David F. Mitch 4 Curriculum Vitae “Morality versus Money: Friedrich Hayek’s move to the University of Chicago” in Robert Leeson ed. Hayek: Biographical Studies Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, pp.215-255. “Economic History of Education” in Robert Whaples and Randall Parker eds. Handbook of Modern Economic History. Routledge. 2013, pp.247-264. “Economic History and Chicago” Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics, Ross Emmett, editor. Edward Elgar 2010, pp.114-127. “Bert F. Hoselitz” Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics, Ross Emmett, editor. Edward Elgar 2010, pp.274-279. ”Education and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective” EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic History, Robert Whaples editor, www.eh.net/encyclopedia July, 2005 “School Finance” in International Handbook on the Economics of Education . Geraint Johnes and Jill Johnes, editors, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004, pp.260-298. “Can Economic Decline lead to more secure employment in the absence of internal labor markets? The case of Norfolk farm workers in late nineteenth and early twentieth century England.” In The Origins of the Modern Career, 1850 to 1950 edited by David Mitch, John Brown, Marco van Leeuwen. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing. July, 2004, pp.281-304. “The History of the Modern Career: An Introduction,” John Brown, Marco van Leeuwen, and David Mitch in The Origins of the Modern Career , David Mitch, John Brown, and Marco van Leeuwen, editors, Aldershot, Hamphsire, England: Ashgate publishing, July, 2004, pp.3-41. “Education and Skill of the British labour force” in The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain Vol. I. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, editors, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp.332-356. “The Role of Skill and Human Capital in the British Industrial Revolution” in The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective 2nd edition, Joel Mokyr editor, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999, pp.241-279. "Public Warehousing" in Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services. A Historiographical and Bibliographic Guide. Handbook of American Business History, Vol. 2, editors David O. Whitten and Bessie E. Whitten, Westport, CT: reenwood Press, 1997, pp.377-406. David F. Mitch 5 Curriculum Vitae "The Role of Human Capital in the First Industrial Revolution" in The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective edited by Joel Mokyr, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1993, pp.267-307. "'Inequalities which every one may remove': Occupational Recruitment, Endogamy, and the Homogeneity of Social Origins in Victorian England" in Building European Society: Occupational Structure and Mobility in Europe 1840-1940 edited by Andrew Miles and David Vincent, Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1993, pp.140-164. "The Rise of Popular Literacy in Europe" in The Political Construction of Education: the State, the Economy and School Expansion, Bruce Fuller and Richard Rubinson, editors, Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 1992, pp.31-46. "Education and Economic Growth: Another Axiom of Indispensability? " In Education and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution edited by Gabriel Tortella. Generalitat Valencia, Spain, 1990. Reprinted in The Economic Value of Education: Studies in the Economics of Education. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, No.17 , edited by Mark Blaug Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Edward Elgar, 1992, pp.385-401. Spanish translation: “Educación y crecimento económico: ¿Otro axioma de indispensibilidad? Del capital humano a las capacidades humanas” in La maldición divina. Ignarancia y atraso económico en perspectiva histórica , Clara Eugenia Nunez and Gabriel Tortella, editors, Madrid, Spain, Allianza Universidad. 1993, pp.41-59. Non-Peer Reviewed Publications. Journal Comments “Market Forces and Market Failure in Antebellum American Education” Social Science History Vol.32, No.1 (Spring, 2008): 135-139. “Are reasons required for eating? Comment on Wilson, Sobal, and Booth” Appetite vol.38(2002): 65-66. "The Role of the Textbook in Undergraduate Economic History Courses: Indispensable Tool or Superficial Convenience?" Journal of Economic History Vol. L. No. 2 (June, 1990), 428-431. "The Spread of Literacy in Nineteenth Century England", Journal of Economic History, Vol. XLIII, No. 1 (March, 1983), 287-88 (summary of presentation at Dissertation Session, Economic History Association meetings.) David F. Mitch 6 Curriculum Vitae Book Chapters, Conference Proceedings and Encyclopedia Entries “Centralization versus Decentralization” Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance, Dominic Brewer and Lawrence O. Picus editors, SAGE Publications, 2014. “Robert Fogel” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 2nd Edition. William A. Darity editor-in-chief, MacMillan Reference USA. Volume 3, pp.161-2. 2008.. “Literacy,” International Encyclopedia of Social Policy edited by Tony Fitzpatrick, London: Routledge. 2006. “Education, Overview” Encyclopedia of World Trade since 1450,